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Re:Nobody Knows How to Build with AI Yet by ModernMech on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:20PM (#44618474)
> But there is also the area of boilerplate, where non-LLM-AI-based IDEs for a few decades already help a lot with templates and "smart" completion.

The thing for me is that AI writing the boilerplate feels like the brute force solution, compared to investing in better language and tooling design that may obviate the need for such boilerplate in the first place.

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Re:Nobody Knows How to Build with AI Yet by johannes1234321 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:34PM (#44618594)
Yeah, but building tooling is a hard sell considering the ability of contemporary AI.

The energy cost is absurdly high for the result, but in current economics, where it's paid by investors not users, it's hidden. Will be interesting to see when AI companies got to the level where they have to make profits and how much optimisation there is to come ...

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